igir

Pronounced "eager," Igir is a zero-setup ROM collection manager that sorts, filters, extracts or archives, patches, and reports on collections of any size on any OS.

See the project website for complete documentation, installation & usage instructions, and examples!

What does Igir do?

A video of an example use case:

With Igir you can manage a ROM collection of any size:

- 🔍 Scan for DATs, ROMs, and ROM patches—including those in archives (see scanning & archive docs)
- 📂 Organize ROM files by console (see DAT docs)
- 🪄 Name ROM files consistently, including the right extension (see DAT docs)
- ✂️ Filter out duplicate ROMs, or ROMs in languages you don't understand (see filtering docs)
- 🗜️ Extract or archive ROMs in mass (see archive docs)
- 🔢 Create playlists for multi-disc games in mass (see playlist docs)
- 🩹 Patch ROMs automatically in mass (see scanning & patching docs)
- 🎩 Parse ROMs with headers and optionally remove them (see header docs)
- ↔️ Build & re-build (un-merge, split, or merge) MAME ROM sets (see arcade docs)
- 🔮 Report on what ROMs are present or missing for each console and create fixdats for missing ROMs (see reporting & DAT docs)

How do I run Igir?

Either download the latest version for your OS from the releases page, or if you have Node.js installed you can use npx to always run the latest version from the command line:

``shell
npx igir@latest [commands..] [options]
`

Here is the full help message which shows all available options and a number of common use case examples:


`help
$ igir --help

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Usage: igir [commands..] [options]

Commands (can specify multiple):
igir copy Copy ROM files from the input to output directory
igir move Move ROM files from the input to output directory
igir link Create links in the output directory to ROM files in the input directory
igir extract Extract ROM files in archives when copying or moving
igir zip Create zip archives of ROMs when copying or moving
igir playlist Create playlist files for multi-disc games
igir test Test ROMs for accuracy after writing them to the output directory
igir dir2dat Generate a DAT from all input files
igir fixdat Generate a fixdat of any missing games for every DAT processed (requires --da
t)
igir clean Recycle unknown files in the output directory
igir report Generate a CSV report on the known & unknown ROM files found in the input dir
ectories (requires --dat)

ROM input options:
-i, --input Path(s) to ROM files or archives (supports globbing) [array]
-I, --input-exclude Path(s) to ROM files or archives to exclude from processing (
supports globbing) [array]
--input-checksum-quick Only read checksums from archive headers, don't decompress to
calculate [boolean]
--input-checksum-min The minimum checksum level to calculate and use for matching
[choices: "CRC32", "MD5", "SHA1", "SHA256"] [default: "CRC32"]
--input-checksum-max The maximum checksum level to calculate and use for matching
[choices: "CRC32", "MD5", "SHA1", "SHA256"]
--input-checksum-archives Calculate checksums of archive files themselves, allowing the
m to match files in DATs
[choices: "never", "auto", "always"] [default: "auto"]

DAT input options:
-d, --dat Path(s) to DAT files or archives (supports globbing)
[array]
--dat-exclude Path(s) to DAT files or archives to exclude from proces
sing (supports globbing) [array]
--dat-name-regex Regular expression of DAT names to process [string]
--dat-name-regex-exclude Regular expression of DAT names to exclude from process
ing [string]
--dat-description-regex Regular expression of DAT descriptions to process
[string]
--dat-description-regex-exclude Regular expression of DAT descriptions to exclude from
processing [string]
--dat-combine Combine every game from every found & filtered DAT into
one DAT [boolean]
--dat-ignore-parent-clone Ignore any parent/clone information found in DATs
[boolean]

Patch input options:
-p, --patch Path(s) to ROM patch files or archives (supports globbing) (supported:
.aps, .bps, .dps, .ebp, .ips, .ips32, .ppf, .rup, .ups, .vcdiff, .xdelt
a) [array]
-P, --patch-exclude Path(s) to ROM patch files or archives to exclude from processing (supp
orts globbing) [array]

ROM output path options (processed in order):
-o, --output Path to the ROM output directory (supports replaceable symbols, s
ee below) [string]
--dir-mirror Use the input subdirectory structure for the output directory
[boolean]
--dir-dat-mirror Use the DAT subdirectory structure for the output directory
[boolean]
-D, --dir-dat-name Use the DAT name as the output subdirectory [boolean]
--dir-dat-description Use the DAT description as the output subdirectory [boolean]
--dir-letter Group games in an output subdirectory by the first --dir-letter-c
ount letters in their name [boolean]
--dir-letter-count How many game name letters to use for the subdirectory name
[number] [default: 1]
--dir-letter-limit Limit the number of games in letter subdirectories, splitting int
o multiple subdirectories if necessary [number]
--dir-letter-group Group letter subdirectories into ranges, combining multiple lette
rs together (requires --dir-letter-limit) [boolean]
--dir-game-subdir Append the name of the game as an output subdirectory depending o
n its ROMs
[choices: "never", "multiple", "always"] [default: "multiple"]

ROM writing options:
--fix-extension Read files for known signatures and use the correct extension (also
affects dir2dat)
[choices: "never", "auto", "always"] [default: "auto"]
-O, --overwrite Overwrite any files in the output directory [boolean]
--overwrite-invalid Overwrite files in the output directory that are the wrong filesize
, checksum, or zip contents [boolean]

move command options:
--move-delete-dirs Delete empty subdirectories from the input directories after moving
ROMs [choices: "never", "auto", "always"] [default: "auto"]

clean command options:
-C, --clean-exclude Path(s) to files to exclude from cleaning (supports globbing) [array]
--clean-backup Directory to move cleaned files to (instead of being recycled) [string]
--clean-dry-run Don't clean any files and instead only print what files would be cleane
d [boolean]

zip command options:
--zip-format The structure format to use for written zip files
[choices: "torrentzip", "rvzstd"] [default: "torrentzip"]
-Z, --zip-exclude Glob pattern of ROM filenames to exclude from zipping [string]
--zip-dat-name Group all ROMs from the same DAT into the same zip archive, if not exclu
ded from zipping (enforces --dat-threads 1) [boolean]

link command options:
--link-mode File linking mode
[choices: "hardlink", "symlink", "reflink"] [default: "hardlink"]
--symlink-relative Create symlinks as relative to the target path, as opposed to absolu
te [boolean]

ROM header options:
--header Glob pattern of input filenames to force header detection for [string]
-H, --remove-headers Remove known headers from ROMs, optionally limited to a list of comma-
separated file extensions (supported: .a78, .fds, .lnx, .nes, .smc)
[string]

Trimmed ROM options:
--trimmed-glob Glob pattern of input filenames to force trimming detection for
[string]
--trim-scan-archives Detect trimming for files within archives (off by default)
[boolean]

ROM set options (requires DATs):
--merge-roms ROM merge/split mode (requires DATs with parent/clone informati
on)
[choices: "fullnonmerged", "nonmerged", "split", "merged"] [default: "fullnonmerged"]
--merge-discs Merge multi-disc games into one game [boolean]
--exclude-disks Exclude CHD disks in DATs from processing & writing [boolean]
--allow-excess-sets Allow writing archives that have excess files when not extracti
ng or zipping [boolean]
--allow-incomplete-sets Allow writing games that don't have all of their ROMs [boolean]

ROM filtering options:
-x, --filter-regex Regular expression of game names to filter to [string]
-X, --filter-regex-exclude Regular expression of game names to exclude [string]
-L, --filter-language List of comma-separated languages to filter to (supported: DA,
DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, NO, PT, RU, SV, ZH)
[string]
-R, --filter-region List of comma-separated regions to filter to (supported: ARG, A
SI, AUS, BEL, BRA, CAN, CHN, DAN, EUR, FRA, FYN, GER, GRE, HK,
HOL, ITA, JPN, KOR, MEX, NOR, NZ, POR, RUS, SPA, SWE, TAI, UK,
UNK, USA, WORLD) [string]
--filter-category-regex Regular expression of categories to filter to [string]
--no-bios Filter out BIOS files, opposite of --only-bios [boolean]
--no-device Filter out MAME devies, opposite of --only-device [boolean]
--no-unlicensed Filter out unlicensed ROMs, opposite of --only-unlicensed
[boolean]
--only-retail Filter to only retail releases, enabling all the following "no"
options [boolean]
--no-debug Filter out debug ROMs, opposite of --only-debug [boolean]
--no-demo Filter out demo ROMs, opposite of --only-demo [boolean]
--no-beta Filter out beta ROMs, opposite of --only-beta [boolean]
--no-sample Filter out sample ROMs, opposite of --only-sample [boolean]
--no-prototype Filter out prototype ROMs, opposite of --only-prototype
[boolean]
--no-program Filter out program application ROMs, opposite of --only-program
[boolean]
--no-aftermarket Filter out aftermarket ROMs, opposite of --only-aftermarket
[boolean]
--no-homebrew Filter out homebrew ROMs, opposite of --only-homebrew [boolean]
--no-unverified Filter out unverified ROMs, opposite of --only-unverified
[boolean]
--no-bad Filter out bad ROM dumps, opposite of --only-bad [boolean]

One game, one ROM (1G1R) options:
-s, --single Output only a single game per parent (1G1R) (required for all optio
ns below, requires DATs with parent/clone information) [boolean]
--prefer-game-regex Regular expression of game names to prefer [string]
--prefer-rom-regex Regular expression of ROM filenames to prefer [string]
--prefer-verified Prefer verified ROM dumps over unverified [boolean]
--prefer-good Prefer good ROM dumps over bad [boolean]
-l, --prefer-language List of comma-separated languages in priority order (supported: DA,
DE, EL, EN, ES, FI, FR, IT, JA, KO, NL, NO, PT, RU, SV, ZH)
[string]
-r, --prefer-region List of comma-separated regions in priority order (supported: ARG,
ASI, AUS, BEL, BRA, CAN, CHN, DAN, EUR, FRA, FYN, GER, GRE, HK, HOL
, ITA, JPN, KOR, MEX, NOR, NZ, POR, RUS, SPA, SWE, TAI, UK, UNK, US
A, WORLD) [string]
--prefer-revision Prefer older or newer revisions, versions, or ring codes
[choices: "older", "newer"]
--prefer-retail Prefer retail releases (see --only-retail) [boolean]
--prefer-parent Prefer parent ROMs over clones [boolean]

playlist command options:
--playlist-extensions List of comma-separated file extensions to generate multi-disc pl
aylists for [string] [default: ".cue,.gdi,.mdf,.chd"]

dir2dat command options:
--dir2dat-output dir2dat output directory [string]

fixdat command options:
--fixdat-output Fixdat output directory [string]

report command options:
--report-output Report output file location (formatted with moment.js)
[string] [default: "./igir_%YYYY-%MM-%DDT%HH:%mm:%ss.csv"]

Help & debug options:
--dat-threads Number of DATs to process in parallel [number] [default: 2]
--reader-threads Maximum number of ROMs to read in parallel per disk
[number] [default: 8]
--writer-threads Maximum number of ROMs to write in parallel [number] [default: 4]
--write-retry Number of additional retries to attempt when writing a file has failed
(0 disables retries) [number] [default: 2]
--temp-dir Path to a directory for temporary files [string]
--disable-cache Disable loading or saving the cache file [boolean]
--cache-path Location for the cache file [string]
-v, --verbose Enable verbose logging, can specify up to three times (-vvv) [count]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]

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Advanced usage:

Tokens that are replaced when generating the output (--output) path of a ROM:
{datName} The name of the DAT that contains the ROM (e.g. "Nintendo - Game Boy")
{datDescription} The description of the DAT that contains the ROM
{region} The region of the ROM release (e.g. "USA"), each ROM can have multiple
{language} The language of the ROM release (e.g. "En"), each ROM can have multiple
{type} The type of the game (e.g. "Retail", "Demo", "Prototype")
{category} The DAT-defined category of the game (e.g. "Games", "Demos", "Multimedia
")
{genre} The DAT-defined genre of the game

{inputDirname} The input file's dirname
{outputBasename} Equivalent to "{outputName}.{outputExt}"
{outputName} The output file's filename without extension
{outputExt} The output file's extension

{adam} The ROM's emulator-specific /ROMS/* directory for the 'Adam' image (e.g. "GB")
{batocera} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for Batocera (e.g. "gb")
{es} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for the 'EmulationStation' image
(e.g. "gb")
{funkeyos} The ROM's emulator-specific /* directory for FunKey OS (e.g. "Game Boy")
{jelos} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for JELOS (e.g. "gb")
{minui} The ROM's emulator-specific /Roms/* directory for MinUI (e.g. "Game Boy (GB)")
{mister} The ROM's core-specific /games/* directory for the MiSTer FPGA (e.g. "Gameboy"
)
{miyoocfw} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for MiyooCFW (e.g. "GB")
{onion} The ROM's emulator-specific /Roms/* directory for OnionOS/GarlicOS (e.g. "GB")
{pocket} The ROM's core-specific /Assets/* directory for the Analogue Pocket (e.g. "gb"
)
{retrodeck} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for the 'RetroDECK' image (e.g.
"gb")
{romm} The ROM's manager-specific /roms/* directory for 'RomM' (e.g. "gb")
{twmenu} The ROM's emulator-specific /roms/* directory for TWiLightMenu++ on the DSi/3D
S (e.g. "gb")

Example use cases:

Merge new ROMs into an existing ROM collection and delete any unrecognized files:
igir copy clean --dat "*.dat" --input New-ROMs/ --input ROMs/ --output ROMs/

Organize and zip an existing ROM collection:
igir move zip --dat "*.dat" --input ROMs/ --output ROMs/

Generate a report on an existing ROM collection, without copying or moving ROMs (read only):
igir report --dat "*.dat" --input ROMs/

Produce a 1G1R set per console, preferring English ROMs from USA>WORLD>EUR>JPN:
igir copy --dat ".dat" --input "/.zip" --output 1G1R/ --dir-dat-name --single --prefer
-language EN --prefer-region USA,WORLD,EUR,JPN

Copy all Mario, Metroid, and Zelda games to one directory:
igir copy --input ROMs/ --output Nintendo/ --filter-regex "/(Mario|Metroid|Zelda)/i"

Copy all BIOS files into one directory, extracting if necessary:
igir copy extract --dat ".dat" --input "/.zip" --output BIOS/ --only-bios

Create playlist files for all multi-disc games in an existing collection:
igir playlist --input ROMs/

Create patched copies of ROMs in an existing collection, not overwriting existing files:
igir copy extract --input ROMs/ --patch Patches/ --output ROMs/

Re-build a MAME ROM set for a specific version of MAME:
igir copy zip --dat "MAME 0.258.dat" --input MAME/ --output MAME-0.258/ --merge-roms split

Copy ROMs to an Analogue Pocket and test they were written correctly:
igir copy extract test --dat "*.dat" --input ROMs/ --output /Assets/{pocket}/common/ --dir
-letter
``

Feature requests, bug reports, and contributing

Feedback is a gift! Your feature requests and bug reports help improve the project for everyone. Feel free to submit an issue on GitHub using one of the templates.

Even better, if you feel comfortable writing code, please feel free to submit a pull request against the project! Please see the full contribution guidelines for rules to follow.